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Originally Posted by petrolhead611
Lack of planning resulted in an agile economical best driving car . Planning results in idiotically huge vehicles in the USA.
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No, it is the federal laws that make all cars huge in the modern era. In the 1950s when the USA was booming and the British were still recovering from a devastating war and money was tight they had no choice but build small light cars. Materials were hard to get, and the taxes were high.
I forgot which TV show it was about historical cars but a British car guy was talking about coming to America in the late 50s from Brittan. He was used to small European cars, and was just floored with the American cars, and the people that picked them up at the airport arrived in a 1957 Cadillac that was bigger than three cars from back home. Of course it is covered in chrome, and dripped luxury.
He was just stunned that everything was bright and new and booming in America and people could easily afford a large comfortable car and large houses.